Wave Energy Uncovering Insights and Avoiding Failures

The journey of CorPower Ocean, a deep tech startup that secured funding from top-tier. Watch the full short — free, no account needed.

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The journey of CorPower Ocean, a deep tech startup that secured funding from top-tier investors. The discussion highlights the importance of strategic fundraising, delaying VC funding to preserve ownership, and learning from past failures in the wave energy sector.

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And everything you found out there was essentially failures and any investor who had invested had lost their money more or less not exactly that bleak but pretty tough environment let's say and taking the learnings from my previous journey as well we decided to okay uh let's go around and speak to everybody who've been doing something in the field so we went to some of the main knowledge centers we went to Lispon we went to Edinburgh we went to uh Toron H uh cities where companies and universities had made the most serious attempts into wave energy so far. And we got to speak with a lot of people who who had built knowledge. We heard what had worked and what had not worked.

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